ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

[Wade Chandler]

Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Monday 19 January 2004 07:18 pm, John Nelson wrote:
> 
>>I tried to upgrade RH 8 on another of my development machines and, while
>>the upgrade claimed it was successful, the upgrade process royally
>>messed up in setting up the modules for the kernel. The modules.info
>>file is missing from /boot. Also the /lib/modules/e2.4.20-20....
>>directory that contains those modules..... wasn't even created so when
>>Fedora boots up, I get a cascade of missing modules errors.
> 
> 
> This box use LILO?  I ran into this with a box; the cure was getting LILO 
> properly configured for the 2.4.22 kernel used by FC1.  This was not trivial, 
> since several LILO support files had been changed in /boot.  The modules were 
> removed by the RPM upgrade process, but LILO is still pointing to the old 
> kernel binary.  I do not remember the full sequence of steps that were 
> required; if this box CAN use GRUB you will want to use GRUB on it; 
> installing GRUB from scratch isn't too fun, though.  To boot the the right 
> kernel you can run mkbootdisk (that is, if the kernel isn't too large to fit 
> on a floppy) and boot from that, or you can boot the install CD in rescue 
> mode to get things mounted to where you can work on them.

Another thing you can do is put the install disk on and choose to 
upgrade your current system and simply walk through the install again. 
It shouldn't overwrite everything you've already done, but you can 
choose to install Grub to your mbr at that point....without the 
configuration.

Wade